Varaha Purana 5.31: Adhyaya 5, Shloka 31
Reconciliation of Action and Knowledge: Offering All Acts to Nārāyaṇa and the Hymn to the Yajña-Puruṣa
एवमुक्तस्तदा विप्रो यावदायसजालकम् । पश्यत्येव न तत्राग्निर्मूलनाशे गतः क्षयम् ॥ ५.३१ ॥
evam uktas tadā vipro yāvad āyasa-jālakam | paśyaty eva na tatrāgnir mūla-nāśe gataḥ kṣayam || 5.31 ||
जब शिकारी ने यह कहा, ब्राह्मण ने उस फांसले दरवाज़े को देखा। उसमें आग नहीं थी। जब जड़ ही खत्म हो गई, तो वो भी खत्म हो गया।
Varāha (default attribution; explicit speaker not stated in this verse-fragment)
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It illustrates a common Purāṇic didactic technique: conveying philosophical causality through a brief narrative observation (the effect ceases when its root-cause is removed), reflecting instructional storytelling within the Purāṇa corpus.
No geographic toponym is explicitly present in this verse; it is framed as an internal narrative scene (observation of an iron lattice and absence of fire) rather than a sacred-geography reference.
The verse conveys a principle of causality: when the foundational cause (mūla) is eliminated, the dependent effect (here, the presence of fire) comes to cessation—an instruction often applied to disciplined problem-solving and moral self-regulation in Purāṇic discourse.
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